Weighing and Balancing in the Justification of Judicial Decisions

In legal theory, it is widely claimed that decisions in hard cases are based on weighing and balancing. However no reconstructions are given of the deep structure of the complex argumentation underlying the justification of these decisions. The author develops a model for the analysis of weighing an...

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Main Author: Eveline Feteris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2008-02-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/511